I will definately look into Monopods. Sounds like it would work well with my style of shooting.
For the longest time, I have tried to figure out what was keeping five or six hummingbirds around. It wasn't just the feeder that I have kept active. Today, I got a shot of one of the hummers eating at the Manzanita bush near our house. It is covered with flowers and thick with the hummers. The nectar that I thought was sugar in some of my earlier shots is probably the pollen from the Manzanita. Here is the revelation shot of hummers at flowers in the dead of Winter.
My chickens are really interesting to watch when they are out of their pen and scratching around. They hunt down bugs like they have radar. This is our Aracuna (who lays green eggs) zeroing in on a bug.
Buzz, the Wonder Dog, and Sketchy the Cat are best friends. They literally don't go anywhere without one another. In the afternoon, they siesta on the front sidewalk and watch the world go by. There will sometimes be fifty to one hundred quail and birds right around them while they take their naps.
